Manuscript fragment on paper of extracts from Laudabile sanctum. There follows on ff. 1r-7v an extended series of longer and shorter alchemical recipes and procedures, probably including excerpts from standard sources, a passage on transmutation, a brief account of the planets, etc., often with marginal captions. With a poem in English.
Description:
Binding: Parchment wrapper made from a bifolium of a late 13th-century French (or possibly English?) canon law manuscript written by two hands, one of them using a classical Littera parisiensis, the other slightly more rounded, the writing partly scraped away on what is now the front cover of the wrapper, the outer side of the lower cover with an inscription in a very large hand which has not been read., Script: Written by a single hand, very small (sometimes minute) and mostly very neat, using a good cursive italic for the Latin passages, and a secretary hand for the English, both sloping somewhat to the right., and Watermark: an extended hand with a five-pointed star extending on a stem from the middle finger, a quatrefoil (?) at the wrist, which is sharply cut off, the fingers partly articulated, of the type of Briquet 11341 and following, but more refined.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700, Formulas, recipes, etc, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
"An alphabetical dictionary, wherein all English works according to their various significations, are either referred to their places in the philosophical tables, or explained by such words as are in those tables": [157] p., with special title page. and Signatures: 2 l. unsigned, a-d2B-Z4Aa-Zz4Aaa-Mmm4 (Mmm4 blank) aaa4Aaa-Ttt4 (Ttt4 [blank?] wanting). Imperfect: lacks leaf Mmm4 (blank) and all plates and tables. With manuscript note on 1st preliminary leaf: "Eliphalet Adams. 1702/3 Donum D. Chip Medici."
Publisher:
Printed for Sa: Gellibrand, and for John Martyn printer to the Royal society,
Subject (Name):
Medici, D. Chip--Presentation inscription to E. Adams
Autograph manuscript and print commonplace book. Collection of notes, engravings, and print cuttings concerning archery. Print items include announcements of meetings of the Robin Hood Society; playbills, reviews, and excerpts from stage adaptations of the legend of Robin Hood; announcements of equestrian archery shows and Robin Hood re-enactments. Also includes clippings of news items, short poems, an account of William Tell, an editorial on women archers and membership in the Toxopholitic Society, with a watercolor depicting a woman archer. Engravings of: the Liberty of Switzerland; the dress of royal archers (1795); men's fashion and archery costumes (in color, 1829).
Description:
Binding: Full calf, gilt borders and spine with blind-tooled flowers and gilt title: Archery Scrap Book., Bookplate: Joseph Haslewood., Inscription on front pastedown: J.W. Remington Wilson. Ent in Cat., Items dated in ink, from 1724-1829., Paper watermarks: 1799, 1813, 1818., and The book later belonged to John Matthew Gutch (1776-1861) who added to it; Gutch later used the book as the basis for an article in The Reliquary (XIX [1787-1789]: 157-160) where he wrote "Some of the following vestiges of English archery are contained in a commonplace book formerly belonging to Mr. Haslewood, collected by him as an appendix to a meditated edition of Robin Hood Ballads; others have been collected by the present writer" (The Reliquary XIX: 157); this description is copied on a tipped-in leaf in the volume. A few of the items mentioned by Gutch are no longer present in the volume.
Subject (Name):
Robin Hood Society (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Archers--Women, Archery--Great Britain--History, and Robin Hood (Legendary character)--Drama
Catalogus variorum librorum theologicorum, philologicorum prae-caeteris selectiorum bibliothecae instructissimae, R.D.D. H. Cornwalli
Description:
Imperfect: title page and pp. 1-6 mutilated, affecting text. Bookplate: Gertrude Dale. Annotated with prices., Several blank pages at front and end not digitized., and Signatures: pi1 A-C².
Publisher:
Catalogues may be had at Mr. Thurlburn's ... Mr. J. Pindar's coffee-house in Cambridge, and of Edw. Millington ... London,
Subject (Name):
Cornwall, H.--Library--Catalogs and Dale, Gertrude--Bookplate
Subject (Topic):
Catalogs, Booksellers'--England--Cambridge--Early works to 1800